Events
Last updated: November 1 2025
November
Green Careers Week 3-8th November
Green Careers Week is an exciting event that raises aspiration, supports diversity, challenges stereotypes, and promotes real opportunities for young people to have a career that will genuinely make a difference. Discover careers, jobs, roles, and career pathways that are green careers and develop green skills.
A green career can be any job, role or occupation that contributes to preserving or restoring the environment and our planet. It can be any industry, not just those seen as ‘green.’ Green skills are abilities, attributes, values, attitudes, knowledge, and technical skills needed to adapt services, processes and procedures to support climate change.
Green careers are a fast-growing global employment sector that touches every company, employer, employee, and education establishment. Requiring everyone to work together to build a talent pipeline from school through to employment for the thousands and thousands of jobs and roles needed for the future. Green careers reach into every aspect of our lives and offer young people an exciting array of opportunities. There are green careers and green skills suitable for everyone. More information here
Sustainable Futures: Your Green Careers Quest with London Transport Museum
Discover Green Careers with London Transport Museum – Free Live Webinar for KS3 & KS4!
Sustainable Futures: Your Green Careers Quest is a fast-paced, interactive session designed to spark curiosity and ambition in young people.
Through interactive activities and meeting real-life sustainability experts, students will embark on a virtual “career quest” to explore how their skills and interests can shape a greener future.
Thurs 6th Nov, 9:15-10:15 & Thurs 6th Nov, 14:00-15:00
National STEM Day 8th November 2025
National STEM Day is a designated annual observance taking place on 8th November, celebrating the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Observed in different countries and in a variety of ways across classrooms, communities and within the workplace, National STEM Day aims to inspire more people into STEM-related careers. Activities and events are organised on the same date each year, drawing attention to what makes STEM subjects exciting to study and work in.
It is also an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of past and present STEM specialists and highlight STEM-focused organisations and industries’ important impact on society.
Find out about: Hosting a Research Placement
Discover the benefits of hosting a Research Placement at your workplace with this 30-minute introduction session. We’ll cover how STEM Learning’s Research Placements & Experiences programme makes it easy to get started, tips for creating a meaningful placement, and the key steps for joining the 2026 cycle.
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2025 Monday 10 to Friday 14 November
We’re excited to announce that Tomorrow’s Engineers Week 2025 will take place from Monday 10 to Friday 14 November. This annual event in school calendars gives students an opportunity to spark ideas and consider how they could tackle local and global challenges in their future careers. Discover resources for school assemblies, lesson plans, Q&A sessions with real engineers, videos and activities – all designed to help young people find out more about jobs in engineering and tech.Register to save the date to be the first to find out about the 2025 theme and get lesson plans and resources to inspire your students.
Driven by Curiosity: How Anushka Engineered Her Way to McLaren 8:40am-9:10am. 11 November
Celebrate Tomorrow’s Engineers Week with STEM Ambassador Anushka, a female mechanical engineer, as she shares her career journey and inspires the next generation of engineers. More information here
Aerospace Engineering – Fail Fast, Learn Quickly. 8:40am-9:10am. 13 November
Join STEM Ambassador Mark for a live talk during Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, where he’ll discuss his career in Aerospace Engineering, the importance of learning from mistakes, and his journey in the field. More information here
World Wide Data Day (W2D2) Thursday 20th November
A particle physics event organised by Fermilab for High School students. LHC World Wide Data Day is a 24-hour span, midnight-to-midnight UTC, in which students from around the world can analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider and share results via an ongoing, 24 hour videoconference with physicist moderators taking shifts in locations around the world. Register here to take part
Training session for STEM Ambassadors: Research my job! 26 November 10am
Our new 30-minute session is a ready-made classroom session that for all STEM Ambassadors can learn to deliver to introduce their job in an interactive way. It focuses on developing 3 key research skills in young people: observing, questioning and recording. The resources are already available on the Community if you would like to have a look ahead of the session. The second session is on
Wednesday 26th November at 10.00 – platform link
Driving Innovation through STEM Education. Tuesday 25 November 10am online
Welcome to our online event where we explore the exciting world of STEM education and how it drives innovation! Join us for engaging discussions, interactive workshops, and insights from an Award Winning STEM Ambassador. Whether you're a student, educator, or simply curious about STEM, this event is perfect for you. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn, connect, and be inspired. Register now and let's drive innovation together!
To book your place click here
POP into Protecting our Planet Day in 27 November 2025!
Protecting Our Planet Day (POP) is the inspiring live-streamed event for schools brought to you by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.Join us on Thursday 27th November when a world full of experts and leading researchers - passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space - pop into your classroom. POP25 welcomes new inspirational speakers as well as previous legendary partners popping back in! More information here
December
The North East, Yorkshire and Humber STEM Hub, in partnership with Teesside and Durham University, is proud to present an exciting online event on 3rd December 2025. Delivered as part of the Research England Hydrogen Innovation Project, funded by Research England, this event will take place online. The main objective of this event is to highlight the important work taking place within the Net Zero sector, while helping to inspire the next generation of STEM careers. Schools are invited to participate in the morning and/orafternoon sessions, depending on age groups. Registrations are made by teachers here
Find out about: Hosting a Research Placement
Discover the benefits of hosting a Research Placement at your workplace with this 30-minute introduction session. We’ll cover how STEM Learning’s Research Placements & Experiences programme makes it easy to get started, tips for creating a meaningful placement, and the key steps for joining the 2026 cycle.
March
National Careers Week 2nd–7th March 2025
National Careers Week (NCW) is a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. Our aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways.
NCW is a dedicated week every year allowing schools, colleges, universities, alternative provision settings and organisations to work towards. It’s backed-up with free high-quality printable, downloadable, digital and video resources for educators to support planning and delivery.
The resources and activities are available all year round so you can make any of your CEIAG / Careers activities come to life – whenever you do them. (But of course we’d really love you to get involved in NCW!)